Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult

Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...

Want to Add Crypto to Your Retirement Portfolio? Here’s How, and What to Consider.

With many cryptocurrencies surging last year as the overall market surpassed $3 trillion in value, a growing number of retirement savers are looking for ways to tap into the potential. Before joining ...

Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?

Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...

Airline Stocks Have Soared. Here’s What Happens Next.

Text size An American Airlines flight Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images Airline stocks have surged as the price of oil has declined. More gains for the airlines will be hard to come by in the short-term.  ...

2 Retail Stocks to Avoid Amid Inflation Uncertainty, According to Barclays

Text size Barclays downgraded Gap stock to Underweight from Equal Weight. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Inflation is a worry for retailers in an obvious way: If prices go up to protect margins, it coul...

Tesla Proposes a Dividend (Not Really). TJX and PNC Announce Payout Hikes (for Real).

Tesla’s proposed ‘dividend’ was really a proposed stock split. Here, a Tesla manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size Tesla was among the hand...

Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.

Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...

Starry’s Home Broadband Is Giving Consumers a New Way to Cut the Cord

Starry says its can build its broadband service—using wireless connections—at 1% of the cost of more traditional fiberoptic networks. Illustration by Barron’s Staff; (routers) Courtesy of Starry...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

GM and Ford Shares Are Falling. Vehicle Recalls May Be Taking a Toll.

Text size A Ford Motor plant Scott Olson/Getty Images General Motors and Ford Motor both announced vehicle recalls Friday. Investors appear nervous, as both shares are falling, but that’s probably an ...

Inverted Yield Curve Could Be Sending a Bogus Recession Warning

No topic has dominated the investment conversation lately as much as the yield curve. While it’s an arcane matter to most folks, we in the financial sphere have been thrown into a tizzy by this indica...

Cathie Wood Sold Tesla Stock. She Is as Bullish as Ever.

Text size Tesla stock remains the biggest position in Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF sold about 22,000 Tesla shares Thursday, according to her...

Apple Was Dropped From J.P. Morgan’s ‘Focus List.’ What Worried the Analyst.

Text size J.P. Morgan removes Apple from its Analyst Focus List. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple stock has been on an absolute tear. Now J.P. Morgan is removing it from the firm’s Analyst ...

Tellurian Stock Is Upgraded Amid Rising Demand for Liquefied Natural Gas

Text size A natural gas processing plant. Dreamstime Shares of Tellurian were surging Friday after the stock was upgraded by Credit Suisse analysts, who cited optimism over the natural-gas producer’s ...

The Case for Building Wealth With Stocks, Not Homes

Illustration by Barron’s staff; Cynthia Farmer/Dreamstime Text size Once upon a time, a young family bought a modest three-bedroom Cape, the worst house in the best location in a prosperous subu...

Bill Ackman Is Chilling After Netflix

Text size Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Shareholder activism has come roaring back in 2022 but it’s missing one of its most prominent voices. There were...

Bitcoin and Ether Prices See Worst Day in Weeks. Dogecoin and Shiba Inu Tumble.

Text size Bitcoin falls but holds above the key technical level of $45,000. Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell Friday, with some of the largest digital assets recording their worst per...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation Has Had a Bad Year. Why It Could Get Even Worse.

Text size Cathie Wood’s success in 2020 made her one of the most high-profile fund managers. Alex Flynn/Bloomberg Investors in ARK Innovation ETF, Cathie Wood’s flagship exchange-traded fund, sh...

How Rising Oil Prices Turned This Texas Scrubland Into an Energy Stock Worth Fighting Over

An unexpected consequence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to turn a Gilded Age Texas failure into a modern jackpot. The demand for non-Russian oil and natural gas has ignited the value of 880,000 ...

As the Fed Raises Interest Rates, and Other Central Banks Don’t, What Will That Mean for U.S. Stocks?

The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to begin raising interest rates stands in contrast to many other central banks around the world, which are keeping their baseline interest rates flat or lowering ...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy?

Construction workers on a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Fla. Toll and other home builders currently trade near book value. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text size The housing market is still robust, but...

These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says

Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

Tesla Deliveries Met Wall Street Estimates. Here’s What Comes Next for Shares.

Tesla reported first-quarter deliveries in line with expectations. Here, new Tesla cars sit in front of a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, Calif., last year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Te...

Your 401(k) Statement Will Soon Have Lifetime Income Estimates. What to Know.

Participants in 401(k)s should begin seeing a “lifetime income illustration” on their statements this year, getting an estimate of how much guaranteed monthly income their current account balance woul...

China’s Bet on Sending Its Exports Through Russia Hits Setback

Sanctions imposed on Russia are disrupting China’s ambitions to move more exports to Europe, a setback for the $4 trillion effort championed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to cement his country as the w...

Stocks for the Recession That May—or May Not—Be Coming

Text size Exelon stock offers a little bit of offense to go with its defense. Dreamstime The yield curve briefly inverted this past week—and that’s a recession signal that is either like Paul Revere’s...

Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Is the Housing Market Going to Crash? With Rising Mortgage Rates and Sky-high Home Prices, First-Time Buyers Are Being Locked Out

When Kellie Stofko and her fiancé, Liam McRae, started house hunting last August, it was with the vision of trading their 800-square-foot Atlanta apartment for a roomier home of their own in time for ...

What’s Holding Back Actively Managed ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity and T. Rowe Price run some excellent actively managed mutual funds. Chances are you will never see them in ETF form. Many new active exchange-traded funds have launched s...

Biden’s Wealth Tax Proposal Would Target More Than Billionaires

Text size President Joe Biden’s new budget proposal includes a wealth tax it says would target the top 0.01% of households. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images About the author: Thomas Hoenig is a dist...